[arch-general] Plasma segmentation faults

[Lars Tennstedt]

Hi,

there are no third party plasmoids on my system, really only stuff from 
the official repository. Recompilation with debug symbols is much time 
consuming, but it will be an option to follow next week or so. You 
mentioned the third party thing. I noticed a wired thing on my two row 
task bar in the panel before plasma crashed. My English is not so good 
that I can describe this perfectly. Maybe this little graphics is a good 
way to tell you.

On one desktop the task bar shows this.

1st row		|firefox|
2nd row		|firefox|

Then I switched to another desktop and then back again. The taskbar 
shows this now.

1st row		|	||firefox|
2nd row		|firefox|

On the first position of the the first row there appears an empty field. 
A few seconds later plasma crashes.

It is strange.


Thanks for your time!

Bye,
Lars

Bram Schoenmakers wrote:
> 2009/10/6 Lars Tennstedt <oss at larstennstedt.de>:
> 
> Hi Lars,
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> Plasma crashes several times a day on my Arch Linux installation (32 bit)
>> with a segmentation fault and recovers immediately. The problem has been
>> occured since the release of version 4.3.0. I did not remember such a
>> problem using version 4.2.x. My system is up-to-date, installed software is
>> taken only from the official repositories core, extra and community, the
>> desktop effects are enabled and the graphics card driver is the nvidia
>> closed source one. There is no bug report about this on bugs.archlinux.org.
>> Does anybody have similar problems?
>>
>> Bye,
>> Lars Tennstedt
>>
> 
> It's hard to say what could cause this. Do you have any (3rd-party?)
> plasmoids installed? Maybe it is caused by a misbehaving C++ Plasmoid,
> so try to remove them one after another and see if the crashes
> disappear.
> Obtaining a backtrace is also handy in order to locate where the
> problem is. But that requires you to rebuild the kdelibs and kdebase
> packages, which may be time consuming.
> Or, you could try if you see the same problem with kdemod, they offer
> debug packages straight from the repository.
> 
> For the record, I have no problems with Plasma on two very different
> machines (32bit and 64bit), both running KDEmod.
> 
> Kind regards,
>